TELEGRAM TO V. I. MEZHLAUK

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Mezhlauk,Deputy People’s Commissar for Military AffairsKharkovCopy to Artyom

Ihave received from Lutovinov yet another confirmation
that you are playing at being independent and at local
republics, by refusing to send immediately to the Donets
Basin all military forces and all the mobilised workers of
Kharkov, and by giving as an excuse idiotic prohibitions
from Podvoisky. I declare that you will be brought before
a Party court and expelled from the Party if you do not
give up this game and do not at once send all military
forces of Kharkov and all mobilised workers to the relief
of the Donets Basin. Reply in code without delay regarding
fulfilment, how many you are sending, and when. You
will be held responsible for delay.

May 7, 1919